Murder Never Knocks (Mike Hammer #21) By Mickey Spillane
Murder Never Knocks (Mike Hammer #21) By Mickey Spillane Kindle Edition Mystery Thrillers Murder Never Knocks (Mike Hammer #21) A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up. But it also lands him an unlikely job: security detail for a Hollywood producer having a party to honor his beautiful fiancée, a rising Broadway star. But it’s no walk in the park, as Hammer finds violence following him and his beautiful P.I. partner Velda into the swankiest of crime scenes.In the meantime, Hammer is trying to figure out who put the hitman on him. Is there a connection with the death of a newsstand operator who took a bullet meant for him? A shadowy figure looking for the kill of his life? RUNNING TIME ➼ 6hrs. and 15mins. ©2016 Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. And the result is and outstanding continuation of the Mike Hammer series Mystery Thrillers Crime I did read all twelve of the original Mike Hammer novels but have never dipped into these later ones Even though I enjoy Max Allan Collins s fiction too. It feels a lot modern than an original Hammer even the later ones And Hammer is maybe of a softie here his respect for women has certainly increased but it s still some good tough guy fun. The plot owes a debt to THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Mystery Thrillers Crime Someone has a contract out on Mike Hammer the question is who and why That s the basic story line of this book and some of it plays out as expected However there are a couple of twists so not everything turned out as I expected. Another Spillane book completed by Max Allen Collins and I enjoyed this one than some of the others In Collins s notes at the end he points out that Spillane often wrote the ending of his books before completing the rest of the story This is one of those and the ending is pure Spillane a twist on the last page. As with several of the previous books I listened to the audio book narrated by Stacy Keach He doesn t do much in the way of voices but does an excellent job of bringing out the noir tone of the book Mystery Thrillers Crime I haven t been thrilled by Collins finishing any of Spillane s Mike Hammer stories until this one It was quite good even for a Mike Hammer Still as tough as ever the world is his man cave but not too much angsty longing for Velda He only cheats on her once too Must be a record Definitely not fem lit but fun Mystery Thrillers Crime Max Allan Collins never fails to capture perfectly the Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer voice never once did the characterization throw me out of the story like so many who tried to follow in their favorite authors footsteps A great addition to the Mike Hammer series I especially love how Mike Hammer has aged and the starting the show that cracked edges but still strong enough to throw a punch highly recommended Mystery Thrillers Crime 
Mickey Spillane was one of the worlds most popular mystery writers His specialty was tight fisted sadistic revenge stories often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line. Starting with I the Jury in 1947 Mr Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews Even his father a Brooklyn bartender called them crud. Mr Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote I the Jury He initially envisioned it as a comic book ca Mickey Spillane was one of the world s most popular mystery writers His specialty was tight fisted sadistic revenge stories often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line. Starting with I the Jury in 1947 Mr Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews Even his father a Brooklyn bartender called them crud. Mr Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote I the Jury He initially envisioned it as a comic book called Mike Danger and when that did not go over he took a week to reconfigure it as a novel. Mr Spillane s publisher was skeptical of the book s literary merit but conceded it would probably be a smash with postwar readers looking for ready action He was right The book in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist went on to sell than 1 million copies. Mr Spillane spun out six novels in the next five years among them My Gun Is Quick The Big Kill One Lonely Night and Kiss Me Deadly Most concerned Hammer his faithful sidekick Velda and the police homicide captain Pat Chambers who acknowledges that Hammer s style of vigilante justice is often better suited than the law to dispatching criminals. Mr Spillane s success rankled other critics who sometimes became very personal in their reviews Malcolm Cowley called Mr Spillane a homicidal paranoiac going on to note what he called his misogyny and vigilante tendencies. His books were translated into many languages and he proved so popular as a writer that he was able to transfer his thick necked barrel chested personality across many media With the charisma of a redwood he played Hammer in The Girl Hunters a 1963 film adaptation of his novel. Spillane also scripted several television shows and films and played a detective in the 1954 suspense film Ring of Fear set at a Clyde Beatty circus He rewrote much of the film too refusing payment In gratitude the producer John Wayne surprised him one morning with a white Jaguar sportster wrapped in a red ribbon The card read Thanks Duke. Done initially on a dare from his publisher Mr Spillane wrote a children s book The Day the Sea Rolled Back 1979 about two boys who find a shipwreck loaded with treasure This won a Junior Literary Guild award. He also wrote another children s novel The Ship That Never Was and then wrote his first Mike Hammer mystery in 20 years with The Killing Man 1989 Black Alley followed in 1996 In the last a rapidly aging Hammer comes out of a gunshot induced coma then tracks down a friend s murderer and billions in mob loot For the first time he also confesses his love for Velda but because of doctor s orders cannot consummate the relationship. In his private life he neither smoked nor drank and was a house to house missionary for the Jehovah s Witnesses He expressed at times great disdain for what he saw as corrosive forces in American life from antiwar protesters to the United Nations. He also carried on a long epistolary flirtation with Ayn Rand an admirer of his writing site_link A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up But it also lands him an unlikely job security detail for a Hollywood producer having a party to honor his beautiful fianc e a rising Broadway star But it s no walk in the park as Hammer finds violence following him and his beautiful P. In the meantime Hammer is trying to figure out who put the hitman on him Is there a connection with the death of a newsstand operator who took a bullet meant for him A shadowy figure looking for the kill of his life RUNNING TIME 6hrs and 15mins 2016 Mickey Spillane Max Allan Collins P 2016 Blackstone Audio Inc Murder Never Knocks Mike Hammer 21 Listened to this from Hoopla Pretty good plot Hammer was Hammer Only reason I m giving it 3 is the reader Stacy Keach Had hard time distinguishing the characters voices I would recommend you read the book in print Would be 4 Mystery Thrillers Crime I really like the new Hammer books Max Allan Collins adds a little polish to the formula whilst still maintaining that contemporary Spillane style Murder Never Knocks has Hammer in his element multiple attempts on his life vengeance on a platter and chase for a killer in a complex labyrinth of murderous sub plots Mystery Thrillers Crime Surprisingly enjoyable gripping crime some great description and moments of levity Mystery Thrillers Crime When Spillane first published his Mike Hammer novels they sent a shockwave across the country with their explosive violence Hammer s frank attitude towards sex and his relentless no quit attitude Big tough ugly Hammer stood tall against killers mobsters and Communists. Spillane put out thirteen of these gems in his lifetime and thus far Collins has combed through Spillane s notes and outlines and bequeathed us another eight classics which are a tribute to Spillane s work and feature the explosive violence of the original Hammer novels and the long lustful love affair Hammer had with his equally dangerous secretary Velda At the end of the book we get a handy chart putting all the original and post Spillane novels in chronological order. Murder Never Knocks does have the feel of a sixties era Hammer novel between the hints of the hippie dippie era of Greenwich Village with its painters and writers and the last breaths of the once all powerful families. What really made this novel work for me were the lines about eyes trying to blink death away the chest a tired beach ball slowly deflating his face splashed with blood and bits of skull and splitting a guy s skull with blood and brains leaking out like he d done a Humpty Dumpty off a nearby wall. The Hammer character described here as a wild eyed and bloody faced guy in a tailored business suit was never known for being sunshine and roses and here he waxes on cynically about it being a pretty stinking world But dark clouds are his bread and butter and there s nothing menacing than Hammer strapping on his shoulder harness with his. 45 loaded with high velocity bullet points Just being tipped by one of those bullets he explains could turn a horse around Hammer may be a target here but he s still the grim avenger out to mete out a certain brutal kind of Justice The hell with being politically correct and going by the technical points Hammer is loaded for bear like no one else in private eye stories before or since has ever been In Hammer novels men are men and women are voluptuous eye candy that Hammer can t get enough of. In short this may be a new Hammer novel but it s filled with all that good stuff that we all loved about the original Hammer novels For those of us who read all the originals backwards and forwards it s really great to get new stories in the mold and spirit of the originals There are some slower stretches in this book as the story gets rolling but once the story really gets rolling it s hard to put it down it s filled with lots of action and gunfire and ferocious activity and than one sexy dame that Hammer cannot keep his hands off Some of the descriptions in this book are really great Mystery Thrillers Crime This mystery thriller gets off to a quick start with two guns firing and a man dead Fortunately for most readers that dead man isn t Mike Hammer the iconic mid 20th century creation of Mickey Spillane But who wants Hammer dead Sorry All my assignments for the year so far have been completed to the clients satisfaction and none of it was anything that wasn t a simple civil case And there s nothing shaking at all right now For a guy who had a hitman caller Pat said you don t seem very worried Why should I be I ve been shot at before You haven t been dead before Anyway not so you d notice His eyes were steady on mine A contract for a guy like you would come high You ve been keeping a low profile in recent years granted but you still have a hell of a rep But that attempt leads to I m treating this as a homicide scene Our big shot assassin will have screwed up somewhere and we ll nail him I got to my feet Shortly I would not be wanted here I m not so sure he screwed up anywhere old buddy I told him This one is a pro among pros a bat shit crazy one maybe but a pro And as for nailing him that was Hammer s job. Author Max Allan Collins keeps tough guy Hammer refusing to defer to the police I got up and leaned two hands on his desk Buddy if there s a contract out on me me is who they ll come looking for Not you Granted but I told you Jump in The water s fine maybe a little cold this time of year Anyway it promises to be interesting Do I have to tell you how I feel about this kind of thing No I know how you think Pat looked at me a long moment then added And I know something else Yeah That you can be just as bad as the bad guys yourself sometimes Sometimes somebody has to I said softly Sometimes you have to be worse And everyone including Velma knows what is coming I blew a stream of smoke toward the ceiling then said A lot of guys would pay to have me dead sooner than cigs can make me that way kiddo Some I helped send up might be out by now and getting the loot together to pay for the job A relative of somebody I knocked off could feel it s his duty to take care of me before he kicked his own pail over Maybe it s a longtime grudge deal Hell I don t know and I don t give much of a damn I m no kid any and if there s any survival pattern needed here I picked up on it a long time ago This is a pretty stinking goddamn world when you consider our end of the business but if somebody wants to pay to bump me then he d better have one piss pot of money to put on the line There is a great deal in the brutal and sexist Hammer that is off putting even in his own context Collins doesn t deviate from the Spillane formula So if you aren t willing to go into Hammer s world it might be easier to pass on this series Mystery Thrillers Crime
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Mickey Spillane was one of the worlds most popular mystery writers His specialty was tight fisted sadistic revenge stories often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line. Starting with I the Jury in 1947 Mr Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews Even his father a Brooklyn bartender called them crud. Mr Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote I the Jury He initially envisioned it as a comic book ca Mickey Spillane was one of the world s most popular mystery writers His specialty was tight fisted sadistic revenge stories often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line. Starting with I the Jury in 1947 Mr Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews Even his father a Brooklyn bartender called them crud. Mr Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote I the Jury He initially envisioned it as a comic book called Mike Danger and when that did not go over he took a week to reconfigure it as a novel. Mr Spillane s publisher was skeptical of the book s literary merit but conceded it would probably be a smash with postwar readers looking for ready action He was right The book in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist went on to sell than 1 million copies. Mr Spillane spun out six novels in the next five years among them My Gun Is Quick The Big Kill One Lonely Night and Kiss Me Deadly Most concerned Hammer his faithful sidekick Velda and the police homicide captain Pat Chambers who acknowledges that Hammer s style of vigilante justice is often better suited than the law to dispatching criminals. Mr Spillane s success rankled other critics who sometimes became very personal in their reviews Malcolm Cowley called Mr Spillane a homicidal paranoiac going on to note what he called his misogyny and vigilante tendencies. His books were translated into many languages and he proved so popular as a writer that he was able to transfer his thick necked barrel chested personality across many media With the charisma of a redwood he played Hammer in The Girl Hunters a 1963 film adaptation of his novel. Spillane also scripted several television shows and films and played a detective in the 1954 suspense film Ring of Fear set at a Clyde Beatty circus He rewrote much of the film too refusing payment In gratitude the producer John Wayne surprised him one morning with a white Jaguar sportster wrapped in a red ribbon The card read Thanks Duke. Done initially on a dare from his publisher Mr Spillane wrote a children s book The Day the Sea Rolled Back 1979 about two boys who find a shipwreck loaded with treasure This won a Junior Literary Guild award. He also wrote another children s novel The Ship That Never Was and then wrote his first Mike Hammer mystery in 20 years with The Killing Man 1989 Black Alley followed in 1996 In the last a rapidly aging Hammer comes out of a gunshot induced coma then tracks down a friend s murderer and billions in mob loot For the first time he also confesses his love for Velda but because of doctor s orders cannot consummate the relationship. In his private life he neither smoked nor drank and was a house to house missionary for the Jehovah s Witnesses He expressed at times great disdain for what he saw as corrosive forces in American life from antiwar protesters to the United Nations. He also carried on a long epistolary flirtation with Ayn Rand an admirer of his writing site_link A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up But it also lands him an unlikely job security detail for a Hollywood producer having a party to honor his beautiful fianc e a rising Broadway star But it s no walk in the park as Hammer finds violence following him and his beautiful P. In the meantime Hammer is trying to figure out who put the hitman on him Is there a connection with the death of a newsstand operator who took a bullet meant for him A shadowy figure looking for the kill of his life RUNNING TIME 6hrs and 15mins 2016 Mickey Spillane Max Allan Collins P 2016 Blackstone Audio Inc Murder Never Knocks Mike Hammer 21 Listened to this from Hoopla Pretty good plot Hammer was Hammer Only reason I m giving it 3 is the reader Stacy Keach Had hard time distinguishing the characters voices I would recommend you read the book in print Would be 4 Mystery Thrillers Crime I really like the new Hammer books Max Allan Collins adds a little polish to the formula whilst still maintaining that contemporary Spillane style Murder Never Knocks has Hammer in his element multiple attempts on his life vengeance on a platter and chase for a killer in a complex labyrinth of murderous sub plots Mystery Thrillers Crime Surprisingly enjoyable gripping crime some great description and moments of levity Mystery Thrillers Crime When Spillane first published his Mike Hammer novels they sent a shockwave across the country with their explosive violence Hammer s frank attitude towards sex and his relentless no quit attitude Big tough ugly Hammer stood tall against killers mobsters and Communists. Spillane put out thirteen of these gems in his lifetime and thus far Collins has combed through Spillane s notes and outlines and bequeathed us another eight classics which are a tribute to Spillane s work and feature the explosive violence of the original Hammer novels and the long lustful love affair Hammer had with his equally dangerous secretary Velda At the end of the book we get a handy chart putting all the original and post Spillane novels in chronological order. Murder Never Knocks does have the feel of a sixties era Hammer novel between the hints of the hippie dippie era of Greenwich Village with its painters and writers and the last breaths of the once all powerful families. What really made this novel work for me were the lines about eyes trying to blink death away the chest a tired beach ball slowly deflating his face splashed with blood and bits of skull and splitting a guy s skull with blood and brains leaking out like he d done a Humpty Dumpty off a nearby wall. The Hammer character described here as a wild eyed and bloody faced guy in a tailored business suit was never known for being sunshine and roses and here he waxes on cynically about it being a pretty stinking world But dark clouds are his bread and butter and there s nothing menacing than Hammer strapping on his shoulder harness with his. 45 loaded with high velocity bullet points Just being tipped by one of those bullets he explains could turn a horse around Hammer may be a target here but he s still the grim avenger out to mete out a certain brutal kind of Justice The hell with being politically correct and going by the technical points Hammer is loaded for bear like no one else in private eye stories before or since has ever been In Hammer novels men are men and women are voluptuous eye candy that Hammer can t get enough of. In short this may be a new Hammer novel but it s filled with all that good stuff that we all loved about the original Hammer novels For those of us who read all the originals backwards and forwards it s really great to get new stories in the mold and spirit of the originals There are some slower stretches in this book as the story gets rolling but once the story really gets rolling it s hard to put it down it s filled with lots of action and gunfire and ferocious activity and than one sexy dame that Hammer cannot keep his hands off Some of the descriptions in this book are really great Mystery Thrillers Crime This mystery thriller gets off to a quick start with two guns firing and a man dead Fortunately for most readers that dead man isn t Mike Hammer the iconic mid 20th century creation of Mickey Spillane But who wants Hammer dead Sorry All my assignments for the year so far have been completed to the clients satisfaction and none of it was anything that wasn t a simple civil case And there s nothing shaking at all right now For a guy who had a hitman caller Pat said you don t seem very worried Why should I be I ve been shot at before You haven t been dead before Anyway not so you d notice His eyes were steady on mine A contract for a guy like you would come high You ve been keeping a low profile in recent years granted but you still have a hell of a rep But that attempt leads to I m treating this as a homicide scene Our big shot assassin will have screwed up somewhere and we ll nail him I got to my feet Shortly I would not be wanted here I m not so sure he screwed up anywhere old buddy I told him This one is a pro among pros a bat shit crazy one maybe but a pro And as for nailing him that was Hammer s job. Author Max Allan Collins keeps tough guy Hammer refusing to defer to the police I got up and leaned two hands on his desk Buddy if there s a contract out on me me is who they ll come looking for Not you Granted but I told you Jump in The water s fine maybe a little cold this time of year Anyway it promises to be interesting Do I have to tell you how I feel about this kind of thing No I know how you think Pat looked at me a long moment then added And I know something else Yeah That you can be just as bad as the bad guys yourself sometimes Sometimes somebody has to I said softly Sometimes you have to be worse And everyone including Velma knows what is coming I blew a stream of smoke toward the ceiling then said A lot of guys would pay to have me dead sooner than cigs can make me that way kiddo Some I helped send up might be out by now and getting the loot together to pay for the job A relative of somebody I knocked off could feel it s his duty to take care of me before he kicked his own pail over Maybe it s a longtime grudge deal Hell I don t know and I don t give much of a damn I m no kid any and if there s any survival pattern needed here I picked up on it a long time ago This is a pretty stinking goddamn world when you consider our end of the business but if somebody wants to pay to bump me then he d better have one piss pot of money to put on the line There is a great deal in the brutal and sexist Hammer that is off putting even in his own context Collins doesn t deviate from the Spillane formula So if you aren t willing to go into Hammer s world it might be easier to pass on this series Mystery Thrillers Crime | Murder Never Knocks (Mike Hammer #21) By Mickey Spillane |
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Max Allan Collins collaborates with Mickey Spillane s notes and unfinished manuscript to come up with a superb new Mike Hammer mystery, The dialog and actions may at times seem out dated But they are true to the character and the stories, His writing style was characterized by short words lightning transitions gruff sex and violent endings It was once tallied that he offed 58 people in six novels. His writing style was characterized by short words lightning transitions gruff sex and violent endings It was once tallied that he offed 58 people in six novels. Late in life he received a career achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America and was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America: His marriages to Mary Ann Pearce and Sherri Malinou ended in divorce His second wife a model posed nude for the dust jacket of his 1972 novel The Erection Set, Survivors include his third wife Jane Rodgers Johnson a former beauty queen 30 years his junior and four children from the first marriage.Even the editor in chief of E.P Dutton and Co.I partner Velda into the swankiest of crime scenes